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13th Amendment
This amendment abolished slavery and servitude. Slavery had formerly been allowed by the three-fifths compromise. It was the first of three reconstruction amendments following the Civil War. The amendment was adopted on December 6, 1865. -
14th amendment
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States. It also says that states can't deny people the right to life, liberty, and property without due process. The 14th amendment expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans. -
15th Amendment
The 15th amendment granted African-American men the right to vote. Due to poll tax and literacy tests it was still hard for African-Americans to vote. It was the third of the three reconstruction amendments. -
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Jim Crow Law's
Jim Crow Law's were racial segregation laws against African-Americans in the United States from 1877-1965. They allowed for De Jure segregation in southern states. The laws lead to segregation of public places, schools, and transportation. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy was prosecuted under the statute after he refused to leave the section of a train reserved for whites. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment grants all women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were originally the ones who adopted the amendment. It took 41 years for congress to ratify the amendment after the 2 women had first drafted it. -
Korematsu vs United States
During World War II, a military commander ordered all persons of Japanese descent to evacuate the West Coast. A United States citizen of Japanese descent, was convicted for failing to comply with the order. -
Sweatt vs Painter
Heman Marion Sweatt aplied for a college in Texas and his aplication was rejected because of his race -
Brown vs Board of Education
Several black children sought admission to public schools that required or permitted segregation based on race. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Protest of racial segregation of the Montgomery transit system. It began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. Martin Luther King Jr. took part in the boycott. -
Ruby Bridges
Became the first African-American to attend an all-white school in the south. She was 1 of 6 who passed a test that allowed her to go to the school. Barbabra Henry was the only teacher who agreed to teach her and did so for over a year. U.S. Marshals would escort her to school. -
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Affirmative Action
A policy that favors members of a disadvantaged group who are perceived to have suffered from discrimination with in a culture -
24th Amendment
Prohibits poll tax for federal elections. The amendment was ratified on January 23, 1964. Poll taxes were widely used to limit African-Americans from voting. -
Poll Taxes
A poll tax was used as a de facto or implicit pre-condition of the exercise of the ability to vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Literacy Tests
Was used to stop african americans from voting. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibits racial segregation in voting. During the American Civil Rights Movement it was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson. It was passed by the senate on May 25, 1965. -
Loving vs Virginia
The state of Virginia enacted laws making it a felony for a white person to intermarry with a black person or the reverse. -
Robert Kennedy Speech in Indianapolis
Robert Kennedy was touring for the Democratic Convention in Indiana on the day of the MLK assasination. There was fear of riots but Kennedy decided to continue with the rally. He offered impassioned remarks for speech. -
Equal Rights Amendment
Was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. -
Reed vs Reed
Ms. Reed the mother of a deceased child, alleges a statute that prefers males over females in the administration of an estate to which they both have equal claims, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment -
Regents Of The Universtiy Of California vs Bakke
Bakke sued the University for denial of admission due to racial grounds -
Bower vs Hardwick
A male homosexual was criminally charged for committing consensual sodomy with another male adult in the bedroom of his home. -
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Americans With Disabilities Act
Gives rights and helps make people living with disabilities become successful in society. -
Lawrence vs Texas
Police found two men engaged in sexual conduct, in their home, and they were arrested under a Texas statute that prohibited such conduct between two men. -
Fisher vs Texas
Is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin. -
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Indiana gay rights
Battle over gay rights.
